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can icy hot hurt the baby?
Me and me husband have been trying to conceive but I also have a bad keen and use ice hot at night or not it really acting up. now I am scared cause I'm reading messed thing online some pregant women say that use it no problem others say their doctor told them it would hurt the baby not sure it I'm pregant yet not due for my period for any other 2 weeks but scared I may have already done something to hurt my unborn child
9 Answers
- ?Lv 63 years ago
Icy Hot stays on and in your skin. It never gets anywhere near your insides and certainly not your womb, even if rubbed on your abdomen.
- ?Lv 73 years ago
Icy Hot is the brand name of an OTC tube of cream that is rubbed externally to sore muscles and sore joints, in order to relieve discomfort. It carries no sort of warning label that says its use might be harmful to an unborn baby. It's used externally; it's not used internally.
Don't try to tell us that some of your friends told you that a doctor told them that Icy Hot might harm an unborn baby or impair your ability to become pregnant - because a doctor did not! A doctor knows better than that. The only way it MIGHT harm an unborn baby (and probably not even then) would be if you decided to eat an entire tube of the stuff.
What's a "bad keen", anyway? What's a "keen"?
- LizBLv 73 years ago
No. I received lymphatic massage during my last pregnancy and my massage therapist used Biofreeze, a similar product. Unless a topical medication contains hormones or steroids and you use it A LOT, it won't harm a pregnancy or potential pregnancy.
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- PippinLv 73 years ago
Assuming you mean 'knee' -- trying to figure out HOW you think that a topical medication used on your KNEE could possibly hurt an embryo ... even if you were pregnant ... in your uterus?
Presumably it's not recommended to rub it all your pelvis and abdomen ... but you don't get pregnant in your knee. (The whole point of most topical medications is that they are NOT absorbed into the body in any but trace amounts.)
- Anonymous3 years ago
What is "ice hot"??!! The notion sounds ridiculous!
- ?Lv 63 years ago
Amazing how you can figure out Yahoo answers but you don't know how to do a Google search.
- Tri-HarderLv 73 years ago
How on earth could that possibly hurt your baby when you aren't even pregnant yet? If your period isn't due for another week, you are just now ovulating. Not yet conceived, not yet implanted.
It's recommended you stay away from it while actually pregnant (in fact, not while pregnant or nursing), but that isn't even a factor yet.
- MissALv 73 years ago
No, its fine. Obviously don’t feed it to the kid when it’s born or anything but as a topical pain treatment its fine.
